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In recognition of her work in the history of science, David P. Wheatland Curator Sara Schechner has been named the recipient of the 2019 Paul Bunge Prize by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker and the German Bunsen Society. Herzlichen glückwunsch and...

The HAD Prize Committee is pleased to announce that Dr. Sara J. Schechner will be the recipient of the 2018 LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy. The Doggett Prize is awarded biennially to an individual who has significantly influenced the...

This spring, the Harvard Art Museums will present The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820, a special exhibition that brings together many long-forgotten icons of American culture. It will present new findings on...

Administered by the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artist Works, CAP assists museums in improving the care of their collections by providing support for a conservation assessment of the museum’s collections and...

Harvard's John Singleton Copley portrait of John Winthrop is now on temporary view in The Putnam Gallery as an exchange loan with the Harvard Art Museums. The portrait will hang in place of The Pope Orrery ( right), soon to be playing a starring role in...

CHSI Curator Sara Schechner was among those scholars weighing in on the possible disposition of a cultural and industrial prize: a Singer sewing machine, ca. 1892. As reported in Harvard Magazine, 1/15/2017

Participants in the International Women’s Day Radio Project, a radio festival which ran in Boston from 1978 to 1993, came together for their first reunion to recount memories of the initiative Tuesday evening in a panel hosted by the CHSI, and the Harvard...

A review of Tangible Things: Making History Though Objects (By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Ivan Gaskell, Sara Schechner, Sarah Anne Carter, Samantha van Gerbig, Oxford University Press, 2015) in the American Historical Review, June 2016, calls the book "...a...

On Monday and Tuesday, 16-17 May 2016, graduate students from the History of Science Department travelled to Montréal, Québec as part of a three-year collaborative effort between the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie...

Prof. John C. Brown, the 10th astronomer royal for Scotland, visited the Harvard Observatory during the Transit of Mercury on May 9. CHSI Curator Sara Schechner was on hand at the Observatory performing a live observation of the phenomenon, during which...